Mœbius& Plank

On their second album Material, Moebius and Plank ventured far, far away from the double coordinates of the Harmonia world and pop music cosmos. Amazingly, they did not find themselves floating in space, but made an exemplary landing, avoiding getting caught between a rock and a hard place. "Material" saw them generate a form of genre-busting electronic music, more radical than anything one might have expected to come out of Germany, not even from the likes of Cluster or Harmonia. Having said that, one should add that the album is in no way a copy of the New Wave and industrial scenes that were enjoying such prominence at the time. "Material" is, in the best sense of the word, without style, that is to say, it cannot be aligned with any of the conventional styles available.